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I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.


Francois Gautier

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ELIN HILDERBRAND They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in...
EUDORA WELTY We do understand and appreciate the underpinnings of the US' de-hyphenated policy in South Asia, but...
JEHANGIR KARAMAT I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newsp...
JASPER CARROTT Francois is one of the best in his field.
HANS STURM Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON It definitely wasn't one of the better years. The effect of the economic crisis in Asia, which start...
HECTOR PEREZ It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on we...
CLIVE CUSSLER These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had ind...
ASHIM SHANKER There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
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DOLLY PARTON The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it...
THOMAS S. MONSON A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to P...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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ERIK LARSON What lies ahead of you is better than what you have already experienced.
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER The right one for you will move mountains to be with you - he won't hide behind them.
MANDY HALE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
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E.J. PATTEN He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time,...
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JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The SANBTS has in fact followed this policy for years and it is based on international practice and ...
IANTHE EXALL Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
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AMBER SMITH Victory does not come to cowards;it comes to the brave ones.
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for ...
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“In a slum somewhere in India
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SOLANGE NICOLE Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
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SHARON SALZBERG I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
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MARY ELLEN MARK In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
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ROXANNE CARDEJON We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
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JAMES CLAVELL It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern As...
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DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
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JOHN H. GROBERG The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
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PETER AGRE An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
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GRAEME SIMSION Last time I checked, Larry Brown started in college, for example, and he might be one of the top coa...
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MARY O'MALLEY Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
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GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
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FRANCOIS MURIAC The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.
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FRANCOIS MAURIAC The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
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FRANCOIS RABELAIS A crier of green sauce.
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FRANCOIS RABELAIS Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.]
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FRANCOIS RABELAIS Panurge had a flea in his ear. [Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.]
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FRANCOIS RABELAIS Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]
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FRANCOIS RABELAIS Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
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FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
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FRANCOIS FéNELON Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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FRANCOIS FENELON I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.
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FRANCOIS MITTERRAND I know all except myself.
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FRANCOIS FENELON So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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FRANCOIS RABELAIS Protocol is everything.
FRANCOIS GIULIANI My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were ve...
FRANCOIS NARS Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of ...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I've always loved the way movie stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolsid...
FRANCOIS NARS My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't the...
FRANCOIS PINAULT But where are the snows of yesteryear?
FRANCOIS VILLON Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth
FRANCOIS VILLON My days are gone a-wandering.
FRANCOIS VILLON Brother humans who live after us, do not harden your hearts against us.
FRANCOIS VILLON We were two and had but one heart between us
FRANCOIS VILLON I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE In this world, you do your job, a good job, and that's what counts.
FRANCOIS NARS Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringi...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, ...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, P...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of ...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put ...
FRANCOIS JACOB Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post d...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the worl...
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